Operation Chicken Meat: Don Bosco’s Facility Helps Distribute Food

On April 4, 2020, the college yard of the Tourism & Hospitality School at Don Bosco TVET in Tondo, Manila was served as logistics center for the distribution of 20,000 kg chicken meat for 20,000 families in the surrounding poor areas. The JDVSF is proud that the newly renovated facility could be used for this good cause at such a difficult time. While the school is closed, Don Bosco’s TVET facility remains open, staffed with a skeleton crew and focused on ongoing food distribution

Images from April 4, 2020 at Don Bosco, Tondo during distribution of chicken to 20,000 local families in need.

John David Vincent Salvador, the second of five children, was born in New York City in 1968 in the hospital where his parents, a doctor and nurse, met after emigrating from the Philippines.

From a very young age, John’s curiosity, joyful spirit, sincerity, and caring earned the respect and friendship of children and adults alike. Very inquisitive about life outside his home, John was an avid explorer of his surroundings, who wrung the most out of a world full of adventure and possiblity. Read More about “About John”…

A Commitment to Change Lives

The John D.V. Salvador Foundation (JDVSF) works to establish, fund, and support programs to benefit children who, without the consistent care of loving parents, might fall victim to poverty, disability, and abuse. Read More about “Our Commitment”…

Founded on a Family Ideal, a Mission Takes Root

The JDVSF’s pilot project, the expansion of the St. Martin de Porres home street children in the Philippines, sprang from one family’s ideals of service and wrenching tragedy. Launched in 2005, by Lizelle Salvador, a first generation Filipino American, the JDVSF mission was a direct response to a pressing need she saw first hand during family visits to her parents’ homeland. Read More about “Founding Mission”…